Lao Sun’s Restaurant (Dongguan)

Lao Sun’s Restaurant is a renowned time-honored halal restaurant in Xi’an, with a history dating back to 1898. Its cooking skills for beef and mutton paomo are recognized as part of Shaanxi Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage. As a flagship branch, it enjoys high popularity among both local residents and tourists from home and abroad.

It serves as an important cultural window to display Xi’an’s traditional food and Islamic catering culture. The restaurant features a dignified, elegant dining environment with distinctive Northwest Chinese Islamic style. For more than a century, it has insisted on authentic traditional techniques and strict quality standards, devoting itself to inheriting and promoting Chinese time-honored catering culture.

Signature Dishes

Xiaochao Paomo

Made with hand-torn bread and century-old soup. The broth is rich and mellow, the meat tender, and the bread chewy.

Stir-fried lamb with scallions

The mutton is smooth and tender, fragrant and not smelly, the scallion oil is fragrant, salty and fresh and delicious. After eating, the meat is tender, slightly fragrant with scallion, and the aftertaste is endless.

Braised oxtail

A classic halal main dish. The oxtail is tender and juicy, with rich sauce and abundant collagen.

Sesame fillet

Crispy outside and tender inside. It tastes sweet and sour without greasiness, with rich layers.